USA Today - Thursday Dec 2 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 USA Today - Dec 2 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'Cowboy Bebop' star John	CHO
'I don't believe ___ met'	WEVE
'I'm impressed!'	DAMN
'Jane Eyre' author Charlotte	BRONTE
'That's awful news!'	OHNO
'You're right'	IAGREE
Academy trainees	CADETS
Actor Ryan ___	KEN
Adolescent	TEEN
Aid and ___	ABET
Artist Abdu	ALI
Awful	BAD
Bird in the crow family	RAVEN
Bird with a silent first letter	WREN
Brain section	LOBE
Bull's-eye hitter	DART
Bus routes that end where they begin	LOOPS
Chop ___	SUEY
City in 38-Down	ORLANDO
Comfy and cozy	SNUG
Deep-frying need	HOTOIL
Disney theme park	EPCOT
Dog's tail motion	WAG
Drops on morning grass	DEW
Extremely long time period	EON
Feeling that's French for 'already seen'	DEJAVU
Flat landform	PLATEAU
Gets larger	GROWS
Hansel's sister	GRETEL
Hidden name in this clue (if you read backwards)	ANNE
Line on a map	ROAD
Lopsided victory	ROUT
Male honeybee	DRONE
Manicure shape	OVAL
Mischievous	SLY
Name meaning 'king'	RAJ
NBA team with a dinosaur mascot	RAPTORS
Negative answers	NOS
Odometer reading	MILEAGE
Okey-___	DOKE
One of the Five Pillars of Islam	SAWM
Opposite of a liability	ASSET
Overtime loss in the playoffs, for example	HEARTBREAKER
Pass without saying hi	WALKONBY
Passageways for elevators	SHAFTS
Sang at top volume	BELTED
See 35-Across	FRIENDSAREFOR
Significant wealth	RICHES
Singer with song titles at 16-, 18-, 23- and 35-/38-Across	DIONNEWARWICK
Small Scottish dog breed	WESTIE
Son of Kanga	ROO
Spanish for 'king'	REY
Table support	LEG
Tach reading	RPM
Tai ___	CHI
The I in FWIW	ITS
The Sunshine State	FLORIDA
Third-person possessive pronoun	HIS
To any extent	ATALL
Uncooked	RAW
Use a keyboard	TYPE
Uses a username and password	LOGSIN
Vegetable with a Ruby Queen cultivar	BEET
Very strongly dislike	LOATHE
Very tasty	DELISH
Wager	BET
Washington who played Olivia Pope	KERRY
With 38-Across, 'You know I got you!'	THATSWHAT
Yam or cassava, for example	TUBER
___ and outs	INS
___ Bay Seasoning	OLD